The definitive insider's guide to our current golden age of television, Ben Blacker's The Writers Panel is an ever expanding anthology of live convention panels and intimate in-studio interviews with the writers, producers, and show runners responsible for all the shows you can't stop watching. Over the course of nearly 500 episodes and counting, The Writers Panel has sat across from guests such as Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad), Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele (Key and Peele), Liz Meriwether (New Girl), and Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) to talk about the art and business of creating great television. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe definitive insider's guide to our current golden age of television, Ben Blacker's The Writers Panel is an ever expanding anthology of live convention panels and intimate in-studio interviews with the writers, producers, and show runners responsible for all the shows you can't stop watching.
The Writers Panel is hosted by Ben Blacker. The show has published 653 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Whalefall" (23 October 2026, 46 minutes), "Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (Eternally Yours)" (20 October 2026, 34 minutes), and "Russell T. Davies (Tip Toe; Doctor Who)" (8 October 2026, 58 minutes).
The Writers Panel publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 653 episodes.
Booking probability for The Writers Panel is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Writers Panel requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Writers Panel's contact route on record: verified email.
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Whalefall director/co-writer Brian Duffield ( Spontaneous ; No One Will Save You ) and author/co-writer Daniel Kraus (the Pulitzer Prize winning Angel Down ) discuss the responsibility of tattooing a movie onto a book...
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Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (creators, Eternally Yours ; Ghosts ) discuss the death and rebirth of their new show (thanks to Dead Pilots Society !), the "easy" eleven year path to getting it on the air, their comedy...
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Russell T. Davies ( Tip Toe ; Doctor Who ; Queer As Folk ) discusses building a story out of anger, his relationship with actors, his response to stupid notes, discovering writing, his unique process, empty staircases...
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Anthony King ( Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat ; Rooster ; The Afterparty ) discusses worldbuilding in the real world, what's too funny for reality, lessons learned from Jury Duty that are applicable to traditional...
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Teacher and script consultant Pilar Alessandra is ending her inspiring and instructive podcast, On the Page , after 19 years and 1000 episodes. Ben Blacker administers Pilar's exit interview, discussing why she started...
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Cassie Pappas (showrunner, Lucky ; Silo ; Griselda ) discusses shooting in Vegas, movies that inspired the tone of Lucky , the emotional guts of the show, getting weird with the writers, showrunning as a "creative team...
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Ana Nogueira ( Supergirl ) discusses pitching open writing assignments, setting a reasonable goal, the Westerns that inspired Supergirl , the core of Kara Zor-El, her favorite brainwash, and lots more. Dead Pilots...
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Christine Boylan ( Avatar: The Last Airbender ; Poker Face ) discusses running seasons 2 and 3, the Stoppard quote that taught her structure, the real world seeping into a fantasy series, her nerd credentials, season 2...
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Owen Dennis (creator of Among Us and Infinity Train ) discusses conveying tone, discovering theme, deconstructing tropes, dueling arcs, the line from Star Wars that unlocked everything, and more. Dead Pilots Society...
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Ian Deitchman and Kristin Robinson (creators, It's Not Like That; Parenthood; Off Campus ) discuss telling emotionally driven stories, resurrecting a decade-old pilot as their new show, how the writers' strike benefited...
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Comic book writer Matthew Rosenberg ( If Destruction Be Our Lot... ; 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank ; Spawn ) discusses co-writing with his brother, comics as a "dirtbag medium," the upcoming 4 Kids ... film adaptation, story...
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Writer/director Chandler Levack ( Mile End Kicks ; Roommates ; I Like Movies ) discusses how her first script became her second movie, revisiting Mile End Kicks after shooting I Like Movies , loving stage directions...
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Writers/directors Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher ( Pizza Movie ; Over Your Dead Body ) discuss their comedy sketch roots as "BritaNick" and what that represents, writing scripts that wouldn't be made, editing...
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Writer/director BenDavid Grabinski ( Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice ; Scott Pilgrim Takes Off ; Happily ) discusses getting caught in the current of his career, runs of bad luck, runs of good luck, perseverance, tips...
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Colby Day ( In the Blink of an Eye; Spaceman ) discusses assurance in writing and business, learning by making, writing impossible-to-execute ideas, receiving notes, and more. A couple of fun shows coming up that you...
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Producer Lauren Neustadter , President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine, discusses building a brand from the ground up, meeting a tumultuous marketplace with optimism, the best way to present your material to...
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Rachel Shukert ( The Burbs ; creator, The Baby-Sitters Club ; The Handmaid's Tale ) returns to discuss relearning to write to act breaks, why mysteries are so hard to crack, finding the heart of The Burbs, dreams of the...
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman (creator, Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ; Mission Impossible III ) and Noga Landau (creator, Nancy Drew and Tom Swift ; The Magicians )...
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Writer/director Alex Russell ( Lurker ; The Bear ; Beef ) discusses why he directed his own script, writing the unspoken, an apt metaphor for discovering story, his Frankenstein approach to outlining, and more. THE...
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Ponies creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson ( The Spy Who Dumped Me ) discuss how they collaborate, the long road to Ponies , comedy with stakes, American culture through a funhouse mirror, genre as a way of writing...
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